BIOGRAPHY: Timara has served with FHI Bolivia since October of 2001. She is the National Assistant of Development and Finance. Within this program she designs promotional materials, assists with reports and proposals, and maintains the FHI Bolivia website. She has also worked closely with the CDP program helping in the areas of communication, photography, and special donations. Working with FHI Bolivia has been, for her, an incredible journey of watching God at work in the lives of families scattered across the cold, altiplano of Bolivia.

Before going to Bolivia, Timara was involved in a number of short term outreaches to Mexico which led to a commitment to working with the poor. She graduated from Trinity Western University in British Colombia with a degree in Intercultural Religious Studies and an emphasis on third world development.

Timara uses her free time for hiking, photography, reading, and teaching Bolivian co-workers the wrong way to play baseball.

REASON FOR WORKING WITH FHI:  FHI is a development organization that meets people's needs at all levels. It recognizes that the only means to the end of poverty is through God's power at work in our lives. I wanted to work with an organization that meets the needs of people physically even as it touches their hearts for eternity.